WMI is a DCOM application; therefore, when you make calls to WMI in your script—whether they’ll run on a local or remote machine—DCOM comes into play. If your WMI script attempts to execute WMI ...

Not all applications are created with remote execution in mind. PowerShell provides several ways to invoke applications on remote computers.

Over the last few months, we’ve been discussing a variety of security-related topics. We’ve placed a particular emphasis on using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to accomplish these tasks.

It's time to step back a bit, however, and learn some of the technical details of remote scripting before we go any further. It's all well and good to jump in and try things, but sometimes we hit a ...

You could wrap it up as a software install, or run it with something like a login script or psexec, but you could just change the SID on every machine, instead of ...

Writing scripts for remote computer management can save man-hours and shoe leather. But like any part of Windows, it has to be properly secured, or you risk opening up your network to the bad guys.